Patreon devlog update 169: finishing touches (1) (Patreon)

alright peeps i got a bit of bits and bobs to show you, they're not the most sexy and coherent bunch of anims, but they absolutely needed to be done. Next time, i'll most likely focus on the title cars, the collectible cards and the bad ends, wich will undoubtedly be juicier.

So, to start, you might remember last time i showed you zeke's cherub flying towars your first person view. Zeke is a warrior and of course his cherubs don't limit themselves to just flying around all silly looking, they literally explode if you let them come too close.

fortunately andy has a distillery worth of booze in his pockets and can craft an infinite number of molotvs. These will be your attack during the chase scene-

occasionally, piercer will swoop in and toss a curative item at you, wich you'll have to hit with your bottles if you want to experience its curative benefits.

of course i had to animate the curative item curing you. I had a bit of a headache choosing what it would be, in the end for an abstract bottle of curative pills. I guess z&a would let them fly in their open mouth while they speed on their flying bike? something like that. XD

there was a puzzle for the D.O.R.K. center that i postponed quite a while because it was kind of mundane, wich involved a frying machine and andy having to turn it on by playing around with a bunch of dials. I thought it would be fun to animate the oil bubbling more or less depending on how close you were to the solution of the puzzle, this is the lowest setting-

this is the mid setting, where the oil start to really get hot...

and this is the highest setting, wich is (i think) your goal.

next, i had to design and animate yet another employee of the D.O.R.K. center, a twinkish secretary kind of guy that you'll need to get the sticky gum you'll use to trip zeke in the classroom, his name is poiel, and he's kind of a bitch.

to indicate that he has the gum i had him blowing a baloon in his idle

also had him chewing loudly his gum, but it kind of looks like he's talking so we might just use the previous animation. for his idle.

ok , now he's talking for real tho.

last but not least i started drawing the post chase sequence, where zeke lands in front of the D.O.R.K. center, unscathed but with all his clothes burned off from andy's molotovs.

of course he has to talk to inform z&a that their attacks won't ever ACTUALLY damage him, since he's too powerful for shit like that.

aaand then he gets shot in the groin with a demiurgic device and grows a dick, wich leads to the cutscene you already saw.

of course, in terms of programming we're also speeding towards the end, so as i told you peeps last time we're getting real close to being done, let's cross fingers and hope for a 2026 release! anyways, that's all i've got to show you peeps this week, more to come next time! thanks as always for your patronage!